[NoPicklez]

Mischaracterization is a quite a good term to use

People don't go around complaining that Microsoft Defender is "rootkit powered endpoint surveillance". It's intent is to protect the system.

There is a lot more suspicion around kernel level anti-cheat software developed by the likes of Epic games due to their ownership than they Crowdstrike or Microsoft.

[sudosysgen]

People don't complain about kernel code from Microsoft because Microsoft wrote the kernel. You don't have a choice but to trust Microsoft with that.

People have been complaining about rootkit powered antimalware for a long time. It didn't start with CrowdStrike: there was a whole debacle about it in the Windows XP days when Microsoft stopped antiviruses from patching the kernel.